This shrine marks the place where the last Portuguese priest in died in hiding
Nagasaki: Oura Church
I left in my lens cap blooper because I thought it was funny and we get some info from Miyuki while we are in the dark.
Sotome: Hidden Christian graves
Miyuki demonstrates how the HIdden Christians would pray at the graves of the deceased. This is an actual grave of an unknown Hidden Christian.
Sotome: Ono Church
Sotome: HIdden Christian history pt 1
A view of an island just outside of the city of Nagasaki that has significance to the Hidden Christians. Miyuki explains.
Las islas Goto, el recóndito escondite de los cristianos ocultos de Japón
Goto (Japón), 2 nov (EFE).- (Imagen María Roldán).- Perseguidos, torturados y asesinados, los kakure kirishitan o cristianos ocultos de Japón encontraron una salida a su fe en las remotas islas Goto del sur, moteadas hoy con particulares iglesias convertidas en Patrimonio de la Humanidad. Palabras clave: efe,internacional,japon,cristianismo,goto,persecuion
Taiko Drumming in Asian American Los Angeles
Ethnomusicologist Deborah Wong offers a vivid introduction to the Japanese American and Asian American taiko scene in the greater Los Angeles area. Taiko is a contemporary form of ensemble drumming that is built on the foundation of traditional Japanese festival music. This new tradition is called kumi-daiko, or group taiko, because taiko ensembles usually feature numerous drums of at least three different sizes played in a fast, loud, virtuosic, athletic style. Taiko is very old, but in most of the ways that matter, it is a modern, transnational, globalized, dynamic heritage tradition that changes by the day.
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Sotome: Hidden Christian history pt 4
Just more of the praying stone and me gasping for breath being so out of shape.
Yukiko Duke om Tystnaden av Shusaku Endo (Föredrag)
Översättaren Yukiko Duke berättar i ord och bild om Japans ”dolda kristna” och den historiska bakgrunden till Shusaku Endos mästerliga roman ”Tystnaden” som blivit film (”Silence”) i regi av Martin Scorsese.
Plats och tid: Hjalmar Stolpe-salen, Etnografiska museet, Stockholm, den 12 februari 2017 kl 13:00-13:40 Arrangörer: Japanska Thesällskapet, Atrium Förlag
Läs mer om Shusaku Endo och Tystnaden på förlagets hemsida (under Författare respektive Böcker)